Excuse me, I don't want to start a flame war but....
I always thought that floppy disks production were pretty dead, maybe some
obscure Chinese brand were still making them.
In the other hand, are Imation, 3M or Sony still making floppies???
Happy New Year!
Santiago
2017-01-01 18:52 GMT-05:00 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I never had a USB floppy drive but have experience with regular floppy
> drives, 3.5" and 5.25".
> >
> > In the later years, I had great trouble with floppy drives. Ability to
> write was lost before the ability to read. 5.25" floppies seemed to have
> better shelf life than 3.5".
> >
> > FreeDOS did better than Linux with floppy drives, and Linux did better
> than FreeBSD or NetBSD.
> >
> > Error messages you got with that floppy disk were roughly consistent
> with what I would get with floppies from 1995 and thereabouts.
> >
> > Even floppies that I had never used proved unusable.
>
> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
> floppy, put it on a shelf, and be able to read it again 5 years from
> now. At the time, the "gold standard" was Dysan. Floppy disk media
> varied in quality, and if you bought based on lowest price, you
> deserved what you got.
>
> Floppies are sill made and sold - see http://www.floppydisk.com/. I'd
> get new ones to try this on instead of trying to reuse ancient stuff
> lying around.
>
> > Tom
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